A Midsummer's Love Tale

A Midsummer's Love Tale - Prologue and Chapter One

                                            A  MIDSUMMER’S LOVE TALE

                         

                          CONCEIVED AND AUTHORED BY VIKKRAM GULATI

                                         

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                                                            PROLOGUE

 

Vikas was smart, fair complexioned, had wavy black hair, looked more like a model, and was of athletic build.

A well-established lawyer with a fairly intelligent mind, and lean looks. Except that ‘intelligence’ today is measured by the amount of zeroes your bank balance supports, and not by the ‘intellectual property or prowess’ you might have built up over the years.

So apart from being a fairly good lawyer with a fairly good bank balance, Vikas was plagued by the vagaries of his profession which called for the utmost care and commitment. One slip and the whole case could go for a six.

There was however one major drawback which Vikas faced, which was taking a huge toll on his professional as well as personal life.

Having been thrust with the responsibility of managing a career in the legal profession without any major help or any godfathers, Vikas had his task meticulously cut out for him. He had to maintain his clients as well as to keep the ‘flag flying high’ which had been handed over to him by his father who was in the judiciary. 

The one ‘vice or virtue‘ which this dapper lawyer had, was to express his views or keep ‘writing’ regularly, which he did religiously, either in a newspaper column, or through his own blog. For that he could don the mantle of a journo or an author or a blogger. Or all combined in one.

He had always wanted to be a journalist right from the beginning of his working career. In fact even while pursuing his law course he had joined a highly reputed English daily as a ‘stringer’ and during his short stint, would provide numerous stories for them on a regular basis.

In his brief brush with journalism, Vikas had done innumerable scoops on topics as diverse as caste conversions, to an interview with a top Bollywood film personality, who had managed an election ticket for himself on the ‘ruling party’ ticket.

Vikas’s big break as a journo came when he was asked to take over as Chief of Bureau staff from an already established journo. This invite was based solely on the strength of his writing and the writing on the wall  for the established journo was clear for all to see. He however declined the offer, Good Samaritan that he was. Reason being, as he didn’t want to destabilise the family of the ‘established journo’.